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I agree with @Rainier, the structure of their relationship heavily implies that Moash's part is only partly played out, and that his fate is inextricably bound up with Kaladin's. I think it's interesting that he is largely an unsympathetic character because his actions are such obvious foils for Kaladin, he is the shadow form of Kaladin, the living embodiment of the old saw of "There but for the grace of god go I". I think we are well on our way to a tragic yet satisfying redemption arc for Moash because of the following: Moash is an embodiment of the consequences for choosing the wrong path, a mirroring of Kaladin's heroic choices, a moral exemplar for failing to follow the better path. Moash has given up on all things in life, he gave all of his pain to Odium, he tried to embrace the void, but the thing that connected him to a life not devoid of feeling was his admiration for Kaladin. He clearly sees that Kaladin cannot coexist with the nihilistic world view that he currently operates under, and his attempt to break Kaladin was really just a symbolic attempt to prove that his worldview is the correct one. But, again, he was proven wrong, because Kaladin was the spear that wouldn't break. At the end of RoW Moash is blind. He has an honorblade at this time, so he should be able to heal from this. I think this is the biggest clue we have about his potential redemption in the future of SLA. This blindness is symbolic, this is something that he won't be able to heal from because he sees an element of personal truth in this condition. The path that he has walked since he left Kaladin's side has been a blind path. If you live for vengeance,what's left to live for after the vengeance has been enacted? Like @Seloun stated in his very fine post, everyone has the possibility of redemption (because it relies only on their actions), but not necessarily the capacity to be forgiven (which is dependent on the estimation of others). The murder of Teft is unforgivable, but the capacity to rise from the ashes of his delusional existence (where he believed he was free from the burden of the consequences of his actions) is there before him, and the fact that part of his spiritual identity is an incurable blindness leads me to believe that he is ready to acknowledge his past mistakes and is willing to atone for his past errors in judgement.

Pip pip! It's definitely a fun ride. How are you going to do your reread? I've only reread MBotF, all the rest of the series I've only read one time through. I'm the most excited to give the Novels of the Malazan Empire another read honestly. Feel like there's still a bunch of dots to connect through that series, I just have to steel myself to get through Night of Knives and weather the pretty lame cast that only appears in the Esselmont books, especially the thoroughly unremarkable saga of Kyle.

@Lecky Twig, the place I went to was a privately run VR arcade, just a bunch of screaming fast computers, with ridiculously powetful graphics cards, with super high speed internet connections and Oculus Rift S headsets and game controls. Look online to see if you have a VR arcade in your area. The one in our town has a crazy good deal for Tuesdays, so when we go back it will definitely be on a Tuesday. It was sweet, you basically were in a 4 ft by 4 ft x 8 ft tall box (real world constraints, but the borders were projected in VR) where your 3d position is tracked, so if you were looking at the Coliseum in Rome, you could walk around it, squat to get a slightly closer look at it, etc. The controls for Google Earth are amazingly powerful and intuitive. One of the handsets had a bubble on it, that you could bring up to your eyes to go into a 360 street view picture of what you were just looking at. I was in the valley of kings in Luxor, and got to see a 360 virtual reality picture of the inside of the tomb of Ramses VI, it was so cool! Also I went to the top of the mountain outside Buenos Aires and was standing next to the statue of Christ the Redeemer, at a scale were the statue was about 5 feet tall. So cool! This is the promise of the future made better by technology. All geography classes should be taught with Google Earth VR.

I got to tour the world as Godzilla today. I had an hour to go anywhere I wanted, in immersive VR in the Google Earth VR app. I have to say the view being Godzilla sized is fantastic! I got to see, virtually, one of the things I am most excited to see in real life, the 60 ft tall 1 to 1 scale Gundam RX-78 model outside Gundam Front (the flagship Gundam model store) in Tokyo. So cool.

Now that we're in February we can start the official countdown to one of the most exciting events in modern unmanned interplanetary exploration, we're now just 16 days away from the landing on Thursday February 18th of the Mars Perseverance lander. This is a great page that shows the stages of the landing, which from first entry into the Martian atmosphere will take approximately 7 minutes to descend and land! https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-perseverance-rover-22-days-from-mars-landing Starting at 11:15 am PST, NASA will be broadcasting live real time updates of the Mars lander's progress on their YouTube channel and on their NASA TV page. At 11:15 am Mars will be approximately 1.37 AUs from earth, meaning that real time communication from Mars will actually have a lag of about 680 seconds. So live from Mars will actually be 11 minutes and 20 seconds after it has actually happened. Here's a page link with the Mars lander NASA live stream events: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/landing/watch-online/ This is a pretty amazingly sweet simulation of the full series of steps for the Entry, Descent, and Landing of the Perseverance lander, using the NASA eyes solar system simulator: https://eyesstage.jpl.nasa.gov/apps/mars2020 Here's an animated GIF (spoilered below_ of the landing after the backshell parachute portion of the lander is jettisoned, and the rocket descent lander is engaged, pretty freaking sweet! According to the simulation, the first stage of the landing, the cruise stage separation will begin at 12:38 pm, PST, and touchdown will occur at 12:55 pm PST. My daughters and I will be tuning into the NASA's live feed at 12:45 pm. With the communication delay, we should know by 1:07 pm if the landing was a success! Rad indeed! If anyone wants to get a PM reminder the day of the Landing, just let me know, I'll send out a group one around 10:00 am PST if there's any interest in this.

That's a great bane and Welcome to the Shard! Granted. You get a one of these: Yep, you get your very own Titan Arum, or, as it's otherwise known, a Sumatran Corpse Flower. Your bane is that you must wear it around your neck at all times or you will die. On the plus side you don't have to bath anymore to get rid of your body odor because no one is ever going to notice that mild smell over the putrescent, dead body smell of the gigantic mouldering flower hanging from your neck. I wish for a new magical pet that can talk in a manner where I can understand their speech, and that it's not a parrot, a macaw, or a raven.

Congrats @Kingsdaughter613, Kelsier came out swinging for sure, those were some great roasts! Thanks too Ghander, it's fun some times to play the part of the unrepentant villain. *********** After the standing ovation for Kelsier, who justifiably soaks up the praise and adulation, Vyre shrugs his shoulders and goes back to digging fence posts, bench pressing whitespines and smoking terribly smelly cigars around babies.

Yep. Upside down, I typed it. TPBM likes to sing while doing chores, quite possibly with the aim of roping birds, squirrels and short little men into doing the work for them (like a certain Disney princess)

Beautiful!!

Here's a numbered list of potentially fun things to create pixel art/animation of: A rotating skull on fire The Steel alphabet (pick a pixel dimension and get the best approximation for every glyph) Take a picture of a tree where you can see the full shape of the tree, render it accurately but stylized. Do this for all the different types of tree and then sell your pixel tree library on IStockPhoto.com All the things @AonEne said (especially the rolling d20) Shiba Inus. They are adorable and they look even cuter when simplified. If this is an exercise to hone your craft, then try picking arbitrary pixel dimensions and then try and recreate recognizable logos within those dimensions. Take sprites that you love (like say, Kefka from final fantasy 6) and then create new animations for them (and tag me if you do this one, holy crap that would be awesome). As an exercise, try taking the sprites of Link from the original NES version of Zelda, and redesign them so that Link looks like a pirate. Try making a cohesive set of sprites of as many as possible different dog and or cat breeds, and then sell your dog/cat library of sprites on IStockPhoto.com As an exercise, using the same pixel dimensions, make sprites of 18 (randomly picked number, I looked at an animated gif of a rotating d20 to pick it) different hand poses. When looked at as a set, it should obviously be the same hand, roughly the same size/volume, and they should look really cool. Do pixelated portraits of famous authors (and tag me when your post them). The 17th Shard logo. Magellan, Brandon's most beloved non-genetically related child. A shiny gold piece, who doesn't like to see a shiny gold piece in pixel form (I'll tell you, the people who have no soul, that's who. No soul at all) A bear. A stylized portrait of Salvador Dali. The serpent of time eating it's own tail, almost like it has time to make a wheel of some sort... I looked at your gallery of pixel art, it's looking really good. I think you have what it takes, you just need to put the time in, build up those pixelated muscles, and you could go all the way.

Spoken like someone suffering from a ...delusion perhaps? I kid, I kid. All in good fun, all in good fun. These, after all are mere words, If the Nightwatcher were real I;m sure she would be a successful hedge fund manager, basking in the Mediterranean sun on the deck of her 30 ft catamaran at anchor off the cost of Ibiza.

Doh, hadn't refreshed the page...the Nightwatcher will now attend to your wish The Nightwatcher turns to you and says, "I'm sorry, but I cannot grant your boon. You see, if you let someone or something win then they haven't really won at all. And secondly forever is a scope outside my control. Although I am a sliver of a god, even my span is vanishingly small when compared to the unbroken infinitude of forever." "The best I can grant you is a mental feedback loop that alters your precept system so that you believe that the TLT is always winning against TLPW. This delusional construct will persist in subjective terms for you 'forever'" "Since that's admittedly a cop out, I'll also grant you the power to pop popcorn with just the heat from your palms and I'll throw in a glamor that you can trigger on demand that makes your eyes look extra sparkly." "And, let's see, for your bsne... Um if someone taps you on the back unexpectedly then you forget who you are and get temporary amnesia for 5 minutes, but your eye sparkle glamor is also triggered so people generally take care of you like you are an exceptionally cute stray puppy." I wish for something that I can fit in a backpack and that is tremendous.

Grantd! Duh rest ov duh wirld got reel stupid, sew u r duh smartest 1 n duh wirld. I wish 4 a shinee thing-a-ma-jig

Granted! Never has a clock worked so well with so little apparent noise. Your bane is that your clock tolls out the hours with the distinctive sound of a Main Coone cat mewling. I wish my Maine Coone cat meowed less for temptations.

You better believe it! The Daryl Hall and John Oates album Big Bam Boom was the first album I ever got, it was an audio tape even. This song is still a classic: TPBM is unabashedly supercillious when it comes to philately.

Granted! You read exceptionally , but you this by . You now every third you read try and the words skim over context. Unfortunately, are killed a subway while vacationing England because: I wish a neverending sandwich

Great roast @Kingsdaughter613! There's definitely a lot of swagger in this final showdown. Thanks @Ghanderflaffle and @yeshevishman!

The curtain is raised for the final Act, in the center of the stage a tall man stands silhouetted with his back to the audience. Before him, gold and red strips of fabric are blown by a strong wind and lit from below so that they flick and waver like tongues of flame. Another man, in a double breasted suit, with golden hair and one eye glinting with reflected light appears to be frozen in place, as the tall man in black talks to the simulated pillar of flames.

Granted, with some qualifications. First, sadly, Mraize was already given a redemption ark in the Stormlight 4.5 novella for @Voidspawn's boon/bane, so that can't be undone by your wish. Mraize will though, per your wish, die a slow, painful death in the next Stormlight book, but sadly the exact manner of his death is a RAFO. Your bane is that you have to look at a depiction of what Mraize's redemption ark looks like (note the bane concerns his ark, not his character arc). The Title of the Stormlight Novella is "Hey Stormfather, would it kill you to make a Rainbow?" I wish that there was an animated film of Mraize's Redemption Ark.

Sounds good, thanks Ghander! I don't have time to do my roast until Sunday night so this works out well for me too. Congrats @Kingsdaughter613 and well played @BreezeCauthon! Untill that day all I have to say Is if Kelsier rhymes with toupee He must be French Canadian, A?

As per @Shob the Voidbringer's request: Granted! The Nightwatcher seems to speak directly into your mind and says, "The breaths you are receiving are a large portion of the Cosmere Endowment for the Arts, Edgli expects you to put them to good use". With the billion breath endowment that you have been granted, and the consciousness expansion that comes with becoming a sliver of a god, you realize precisely what must be done. You begin staging performances of Shakespeare's plays (mostly his tragedies and historical plays) using Awakened Lego mini figures. Don't worry, you're really just the director, with your voiceless awakening you can awaken Lego mini figure set designers that construct all of the backdrops and sets. Here's a scene from your wildly successful staging of Hamlet: Here's what "a" Ghanderflaffle looks like: Your bane is that instead of saline tears you now cry ketchup. I wish that when I pointed with my index finger I could use it as a laser pointer. I don't want any laser embedded in my finger, I want it to be just a volitional ability to emit laser light from my finger when pointing at something.

This part was great @BreezeCauthon! And your roast had great pathos @Kingsdaughter613! Kel's emotional journey was perfect. It's going to be hard to vote this time, your guys' roasts were both great!

Granted! This ability, long dreamt of by the abstemious and the tea-totaling, is now yours; you can turn wines of any vintage into clear, cool, refreshingly tasteless water. The Nightwatcher has thrown in a couple of extra freebies with your asked for boon. You can turn many loaves of bread into a single loaf, you can turn vast multitudes of fish into a single fish, and you can walk under water. Your bane is that you believe that you are the new messiah and you are compelled by this delusion to walk the earth and tell strangers anachronistic parables involving oxen, scythes, wheat threshing and oddly enough e-cigarettes. I wish I could draw/paint in my dreams and then take that artwork out of the dream into the waking world.

The auditorium is quiet, the crowd remarkably subdued after Breeze's showy exit, begin talking softly again when the curtains drop for a change of scene. Now, with mock humility, we at Grapevine Productions do proffer forth a trifling little continuation of the play that you have seen Act I of. For your slight, and dare we hope enjoyable enjoyment, here is Act II of Rogues in Bug Land, wherein the villain Vyre, recently reunited with lovely Leshwi and the nefarious Nale, doth plot, plan and scheme in song form. As the curtain rises we see our three ne'erdowells standing atop a prop version of a Kholinar wind blade, with a backdrop painting of Kholinar ablaze behind them. The curtains fall as the crowd murmurs in distress at the sheer villainy of the scene they have just seen. Sounds of shifting props filter through the drawn curtain as the anxious spectators prattle on, with many aghast declamations and many an arched eyebrow and stern harrumpf. The curtain rises for Act II, Scene 2 revealing a lone man dressed in a rumpled black uniform sitting on a inky black rock under an inverted sky, staring intently into a luminescent pool. Behind him a glowing misty form wanders aimlessly, raveling and unraveling as he mutters quietly to himself. The man sprawled on the rock stands and undoes the collar of his uniform, and holding a microphone loosely in one hand he rises into the air and floats towards the misty figure. The light of the pool slowly fades and Vyre is lit instead by a blue tinted spotlight. Looking forlornly at the sad state that Preservation is in he begins to sing: